Trans­form into Suc­cess

Companies continually need to adjust to global competition and changing customer needs. Supply chains need to evolve to adapt to these altering circumstances. Also efficient procurement, production and distribution networks are natural areas for regular reviews. In return the proposed changes and realignments offer a chance to turn these challenges into success stories.

Where a supply chain is affecting capital productivity, total logistics costs and customer satisfaction, the transformation offers opportunities to ensure growth targets are achieved and spending reduced.

Additionally, when different objectives are considered, the supply chain transformation offers high potential for dynamic improvement in customer-related areas such as research and development or sales.

New strategies with implementable alternatives

There are various reasons for a supply chain transformation to be necessary. One of the central questions is whether the supply chain is aligned with the main business targets of the client and consequently where any room for improvement lies. Facing increasing internal and external pressures, the supply chain needs to move forward in becoming an enabler to meet the needs of the customer.

Built upon a holistic approach we examine three main levels: supply chain design, supply chain processes and supply chain enablers.

The engagement leads to implementable alternatives that support an operationally better supply chain. Miebach Consulting delivers not only a business case but also ensures a tactically better process and supports change management. This leads to a benchmark supply chain solution.

Companies continually need to adjust to global competition and changing customer needs. Supply chains need to evolve to adapt to these altering circumstances. Also efficient procurement, production and distribution networks are natural areas for regular reviews. In return the proposed changes and realignments offer a chance to turn these challenges into success stories.

Where a supply chain is affecting capital productivity, total logistics costs and customer satisfaction, the transformation offers opportunities to ensure growth targets are achieved and spending reduced.

Additionally, when different objectives are considered, the supply chain transformation offers high potential for dynamic improvement in customer-related areas such as research and development or sales.

Multi-specialized

We provide consulting and engineering services to a broad range of industries. Our experience and expertise with diverse lines of business enable us to meet their specific requirements. The Miebach Consulting teams are experienced in all relevant processes, terminologies and benchmarks, enabling them to adapt to individual demands. Because we have executed nearly 10,000 projects over the course of the last 4 decades, we have a strong portfolio of projects across our practices for the industries listed below, as well as others. This multi-specialized approach, as well as our experience in various industries, not only helps us to develop best practices and state-of-the-art supply chain solutions, it also allows us to use the integration of knowledge for successful and efficient interdisciplinary strategies and solutions.

Successful change

Whether you're constructing additional storage or manufacturing facilities, upgrading your technology or IT, optimizing your processes or even re-engineering your supply chain, Change Management is crucial to navigate through the process with minimal disruption to your present-day operation. Any physical transformation goes hand in hand with a modification of operational processes and operational strategies. This in return requires alterations to the organizational structure and brings along new duties and responsibilities for your staff.

Focus on the people

The quality of a system depends on the people who work and live it. Therefore, Miebach Consulting actively participates and integrates the staff as they are the key for a successful change in culture, leading to continuous evolution. Every change management project objective empowers the staff to understand and accept the need for change. Involvement and motivation fosters active support to achieve your new organizational structure or processes.

Benefits

Analyzed risks for implementation of the changes

Identifying bottlenecks and pitfalls, and suggesting solutions

Motivated people who are excited to support the change

Coaching, training, and support before and during implementation phase

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The best levels for success

Managing inventory levels is a challenging issue across every industry. Lowering inventories while improving supply capabilities often seems like an impossible task. Defining inventory goals, identifying target values for safety stock levels, and material planning parameters are all necessary considerations to achieve optimization. From there, the inventory management processes and their operational implementation, including inventory controlling, must also be addressed.

A possible task

Miebach Consulting begins inventory optimization projects with an analysis of potentials, during which we analyze your data, derive measures from it, and quantify potential gains. We implement these results in collaboration with you and demonstrate implementation options using a part of your product range which seems especially promising. We complete all organizational, systematic, and technical changes during the project.

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Integrated view of production and logistics

Supply chains, more than ever, find themselves in ever evolving environments. The design of the physical network, developed on the needs of yesterday, is often plagued with high costs, complexity, and low flexibility to meet the needs of today and tomorrow. Our engagements holistically address a number of questions- ranging from the number of nodes required to the proper inventory deployment strategy.

A network for the future

Utilizing innovative strategies and refined tools, Miebach Consulting is developing some of the most innovative supply chains across industries. Whether we are analyzing where to allocate production, or determining the proper structure of a distribution network, it is vital to ensure that the network will be flexible and robust to evolve with the business. Our approaches ensure the solution developed is practical rather than just theory.

Benefits

Lower supply chain costs

Improved service and speed to customer

Reduction in complexity

Elimination of excess or insufficient production capacity

Optimum allocation of production and distribution functions in the network

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Optimizing processes and structures

Globalization and transparent markets are the challenges in supply chain management, among others due to worldwide information availability with constantly increasing requirements. In order to achieve competitive advantages it is essential to establish processes and organizational structures, which are efficient, responsive, and flexible.
Functional organizations are reaching their limits and have to be replaced by value chain driven organizational structures. Miebach Consulting’s experience enables you to restructure your organization and to become the leading edge in supply chain management.

Ensuring the success

Based on your company’s goals, competitive environment, and customer requirements Miebach Consulting audits and benchmarks your operational and organizational structure.
In strong interactions with you we design best in class processes, IT landscape, and value chain driven organization. We accompany and coach your management during the restructuring process and ensure the success.

Benefits

Less interfaces by optimal organizational structure

Clear responsibilities and competences through value chain based process

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Aligning processes and technology with your needs

Companies often find themselves confronted with the simultaneous goals of stronger customer focus, higher level of service, and improved transparency within the supply chain. Partnering with a process-oriented organization to understand the requirements of custom IT systems can help achieve success. Miebach Consulting considers your and your customer’s needs using our best practice experience to analyze, assess, and develop ideal strategic processes. Then we facilitate the enablers, such as process transformation, as well as the selection and implementation of an IT solution.

Long term stability

We select quality IT systems using field-tested methods and innovative approaches like prototyping. We work collaboratively with you from requirements analysis through market inquiries, creation of specifications sheets and tender process, all the way to the go-live date.
Our change management experts mobilize employees for the new process organization as we help adjust the operational structure, stabilizing new processes for the long term.

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Planning for the future

Today’s markets are becoming turbulent and supply chains require even more effective planning to perform at the level required. Not only is it very difficult to improve forecast accuracy as market volatility is on the rise, but also supply planning is suffering from demand uncertainty, making it more difficult to achieve optimal inventory levels and cost targets. Multi-functional collaboration, e.g. sales, procurement as well as operations, and the support of executive management are becoming critical for ensuring an efficient S&OP process. Detailed preparation and diligent execution are crucial.

A holistic approach

Internal and external collaboration are needed to ensure market know-how. An ideal set of tools and their configuration are the basis to obtain the most suitable plans for demand and supply. For this, a systematical procedure in harmonization with your planning horizon has to be established. Only with a holistic approach it is possible to achieve the right combination of these elements that make the process successful.

Benefits

Improved forecast accuracy due to close collaboration between functions

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High level views for sustainable development

More than ever, companies are seeing internal and external challenges encroach upon their supply chains. As their business strategy evolves and customers change their requirements, companies need to ensure that the end-to-end supply chain is correctly balancing the metrics of cost and service. Having a holistic assessment of the entire chain, or certain aspects of it, can be a first step into launching a series of initiatives to develop your company. Sometimes it is best to step back, differentiate the quick wins from the long-term initiatives, and then develop a road map forward.

Roadmap and sequence

Due to the interconnectivity of business processes, IT systems, organizations, and infrastructure, Miebach Consulting advises you where it is best to begin transforming the supply chain. Being the supply chain specialists, you can be assured that the priorities we identify are based on our experience and implementation expertise. This intensive engagement, strategic planning and implementation enable the firm's successful transformation.

Benefits

Efficient processes based on identified your requirements

Shown maturity profile to identify strengths and weaknesses

Clear mapping of potential improvements on an effort and return matrix

Comprehensive transformational road-map, including the use of sequencing

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Transparency is the key

To best manage global supply chains, the various steps from supplier to customer must become transparent – both visually and using key performance indicators. The more closely you examine your supply chain, the earlier you can recognize disruptions, introduce countermeasures, and maintain expected service levels.
Supply chain visibility requires clear responsibilities, cross-function processes, and clear interfaces between partners. IT systems of participating supply chain partners must be integrated if they are to provide relevant information at the right level of detail and in real time.

Visibility in all phases

Miebach Consulting works with you to ensure supply chain visibility in all phases, from conception to implementation. We consider all relevant corporate functions when creating requirements specifications, including supply chain management, logistics, purchasing, and quality management. In addition to these services we also assist in selecting and implementing appropriate IT systems to support your supply chain.

Benefits

Improved service level through adherence to delivery schedules and amounts

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Projects

Projects

Reorganization of the logistics department

Retail

Organizational Development

Supply Chain Assessment

Process Design and IT-Systems

Project Summary

A global travel retailer was in the midst of an expansion and needed a new logistics organization process which would be more centralized and specialized to allow them greater flexibility to grow and serve new customers. In addition to the new structure itself, Miebach Consulting was asked to create a manual of the new processes, with the intent of making work positions more flexible, exchanging them or easily incorporating and training new employees.

Project Scope

Identification of operational process deficiency and proposals for improvement

Benefits

Expansion requires thorough assessment

Consumer Goods

Network Design & Production Footprint

Supply Chain Assessment

Inventory Optimization

Project Summary

A major regional drugstore chain was expanding its retail network. In order to handle the future increase in material flows and the expansion of logistical drop points over a large geographical area, Miebach Consulting was appointed to define the future processes. A flexible model was designed with a strong focus on the distribution network, optimizing the current supply chain operation, and decreasing inventory.

Project Scope

Create distribution model to optimize stock levels and increase service

Benefits

SC transformation at a leading paperboard producer

Manufacturing & High-Tech

Change Management

Process Design and IT-Systems

S&OP

Project Summary

With increasing supply in the market through capacity addition in domestic area and higher imports, an exceptional product range alone was not sufficient for a leading paperboard producer to maintain price and volume leadership. To provide legendary service to customers Miebach Consulting was asked to support this project. Higher OTIF and shorter lead times, while maximizing capacity utilization, given the capital intensive nature of the business, were set as the project objectives.

Benefits

Process model for optimized organizational structure

Chemical

Organizational Development

Process Design and IT-Systems

Change Management

Project Summary

An international specialty chemicals company wanted to improve supply chain operations by optimizing processes and structure. A challenge was to integrate the processes into supply chain planning as well as into the new, global ERP solution. Within a very short time frame, Miebach Consulting developed blueprints for optimized processes. Likewise, the future operating model was defined, showing how to organize and manage the supply chain. A communication concept ensured the implementation success.

Reverse logistics optimization reduces packaging loss

Consumer Goods

Inventory Optimization

Process Design and IT-Systems

Supply Chain Visibility

Project Summary

A leading international brewing company requested the services of Miebach Consulting in order to define, redesign and implement their reverse logistics process. The specific goal of the project was to obtain greater visibility and control over returnable materials such as glass bottles, barrels, shelves, plastic crates, frames, etc. in order to improve planning and optimize the inventory of those materials.

Project Scope

Improve planning and optimization of returnable assets inventory

Define, redesign and implement reverse logistics processes

Design and implement logistics IT to support new reverse logistics process

Benefits

Improved operating processes and visibility with implemented logistics IT tool

Comprehensive redesign of retail supply chain

Retail

Network Design & Production Footprint

Supply Chain Assessment

Organizational Development

Project Summary

A retail distribution company with 3 main business divisions - Grocery, Automotive and Real Estate - asked Miebach Consulting to optimize processes and the supply chain structure in the grocery stores division. They required a restructuring of their organization from forecast of demand up to the execution of operations, along with a definition of the optimum retail distribution network, in order to comply with the desired level of service and reduce the costs involved.

Project Scope

Optimize the internal processes and costs of the supply chain

Define ideal network design including number of hubs and type of operation

Support the business strategy and new organization to achieve forecast growth